Rural News Desk:
The government will take more than two crore vitamin A capsules to more than two crore children this year through the Nation Vitamin A Plus campaign as part of an attempt to eradicate blindness and night blindness. This service will be provided for free in 140,000 service centers in the country.
State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Zahid Malek gave this information at a press conference at the Secretariat on Thursday, he said that this time they have prepared to take 20 million children with vitamin ‘A’ capsules. He has requested all children to come to the service center for six months.
The state minister said that the program will continue from 8 am to 4 pm on that day. This program will be held in lakhs of centers. To 11 months, all children will be given one blue color and 12-59 months of 12-59 months of red vitamin ‘A’ capsules.
The state minister said that the activities of the campaign will be conducted through an additional 20,000 mobile centers including 120,000 permanent centers across the country.
The Minister of State also said that mobile centers will be located at various bus stands, launch ghats, ferries, bridge toll plazas, airports, railway stations, Khetaghat etc. The state minister said that at least three trained volunteers will be held in each center.
Every year at a certain time across the country This vitamin should be taken in the last year to serve 2.15 million children.